Chapter 25: Things Fall Apart
Background: look up pacify:
1. Why does Okonkwo kill himself?
2. How does the tribe regard suicide?
3. What conclusions can be drawn based on the fact that the District Commissioner
said he could write only “a reasonable paragraph” about Okonkwo in is book?
4. Time to dissect the title: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower
Niger.
a. Why does the D.C. believe this tribe was primitive?
b. Is pacification really the most accurate word for this title?
5. At the end of the novel, Achebe shifts the point of view from 3rd person
omniscient. He moves from the perspective of Obierika to the D.C. What is the
effect?